Famous quotes containing the words comparison and/or sorts:
“I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)